On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Enrico Tröger wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:43:10 -0500 (EST), Greg Smith
For a programmer's editor the feature you want is a step on top of this one--being able to re-wrap multiple comment lines after making a change that pushes one of them to too wide.
Hehe, give then an inch and they will take an ell...
Wasn't a request, just pointing out how even code can have stuff you want to wrap.
# If I have some comments that look like this I need to edit, as long as # simple line-wrap works it's not too painful to just wipe out all the # delimiters, wrap with a 2 character smaller width to leave space, then # insert them back in again.
/** * Even when you're using multi-line comments, you're not necessarily * immune to this problem, because some people are stuck with style * guidelines that require formatting something that looks similar to * this. This you might recognize as early Javadoc style comments. * (the asterisks are optional starting in 1.4, but this style was * already ingrained in the community by then) */
So there's the additional cases I'd expect a giant bloated editing tool to handle (*cough* Eclipse), just to provide a spec for an ideal wrapping feature set. One step at a time.
-- * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD